With more than 7.5 million visitors in 2009, Virginia's state parks set an attendance record last year. The 2009 mark tops the 7.2 million who visited the state's park system in 2008 by 4 percent. The numbers are part of a three-year trend that saw more people camp, hike and bike at Virginia parks than at any other time in its 74-year history. The state estimates that the economic impact generated by park visitors was $175 million in 2009. Much of those dollars come from overnight guests at 26 of Virginia's 35 parks.
The Virginia Railway Express is considering adding an express train at 5:05 each morning. At a public hearing on the proposed change in Fredericksburg, Dale Zehner the C-E-O of VRE said the express train would stop at L'Enfant Plaza instead of Union Station...
The Army says it's working to mitigate noise from an explosive ordnance school planned at Fort A.P. Hill in Caroline County. A noise-study test conducted last month found that no noise level would exceed 136.5 decibels, the level at which buildings would be damaged...
Virginia Commonwealth University is offering a $5,000 reward as the search continues for a missing exchange student. The school announced the reward for information leading to the location of Jonathan Dorey...
Witnesses reported hearing an engine problem before a twin-engine plane crashed in Louisa, killing the pilot. According to a preliminary federal report, several witnesses said at least one engine didn't sound right after the Cessna T303 Crusader took off from Louisa County Airport last Thursday...
Dominion Resources is offering buyouts to 4,800 eligible workers and expects about 1,000 to accept the voluntary severance package. The Richmond Times-Dispatch reports that Dominion is offering the buyouts to save money...
The Virginia Department of Emergency Management says it is holding the annual statewide tornado drill next week. Officials say the drill will begin at 9:45 a.m. Tuesday when the National Weather Service sends out a test tornado warning to weather radios...
A study by one of the largest navigation services provider says Virginia ranks seventh in the nation for GPS navigation usage. TeleNav says Virginia is among several mid-Atlantic states that posted the highest GPS usage...
omg! Brocks tomorrow nite! Cant wait. Thurs are fun again! Great music by the way!
bill thanks for the dance lesson lol
